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The title “Mother of the Gods” could reasonably be given to a number of mythological figures. One possibility is Ge or Gaia, that is, Earth. Another candidate was Rhea, sister and wife of Cronus, and ...
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The title “Mother of the Gods” could reasonably be given to a number of mythological figures. One possibility is Ge or Gaia, that is, Earth. Another candidate was Rhea, sister and wife of Cronus, and mother of Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hera, Demeter and Hestia, as presented by Hesiod. A third Greek goddess associated with the Mother is Demeter, whose name indeed contains the word Meter, “mother”. The name most commonly associated with the Mother, however, is Cybele. The origins of the name are somewhat complex. There was a Phrygian cult of the Mother of the Mountains, Matar Kubileya, from which the Greek form Meter Kybele appears to derive. There was also a separate Neo-Hittite goddess, likewise worshipped in western Anatolia, called Kubaba, which was Hellenized as Cybebe. Both these goddesses appear to lie behind the development of the Greek figure Cybele, a name which occurs in Greek poetry from the sixth century BCE.
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